SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
CONFORMITY AND OBEDIENCE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Obedience
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Conformity
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -What did the electric shock experiment show? Most people will obey orders, even when it harms others.
Detailed explanation-2: -Solomon Asch conducted an experiment to investigate the extent to which social pressure from a majority group could affect a person to conform. He believed that the main problem with Sherif’s (1935) conformity experiment was that there was no correct answer to the ambiguous autokinetic experiment.
Detailed explanation-3: -Milgram’s Studies on Obedience to Authority. The powerful ability of those in authority to control others was demonstrated in a remarkable set of studies performed by Stanley Milgram (1963). Milgram was interested in understanding the factors that lead people to obey the orders given by people in authority.
Detailed explanation-4: -Conformity is the act of matching attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to group norms.